Publication
Comparative analysis for detecting objects under cast shadows in video images
Conference Article
Conference
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
Edition
20th
Pages
4577-4580
Doc link
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICPR.2010.1113
File
Abstract
Cast shadows add additional difficulties on detecting objects because they locally modify image intensity and color. Shadows may appear or disappear in an image when the object, the camera, or both are free to move through a scene. In this work we use an object detection method based on boosted HOG paired with three different image representations, and we evaluate their relative performance. We follow and extend on the taxonomy from van de Sande [7] with considerations on the constraints assumed by each descriptor on the spatial variation of the illumination. We show that the intrinsic image representation consistently gives the best performance when tested on images from sequences acquired in an outdoor environment at different times of the day. This proves the usefulness of this representation for object detection in varying illumination conditions, and supports the idea that local assumptions in the descriptors can, in practice, be violated.
Categories
object detection.
Author keywords
image colour analysis , image representation , image sequences , lighting , object detection , video signal processing
Scientific reference
J. Scandaliaris, M. Villamizar and A. Sanfeliu. Comparative analysis for detecting objects under cast shadows in video images, 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 4577-4580.
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